General Chiang Kai-shek is wrathful at the feeble efforts of the authorities of the principal Yangtze provinces to prevent the floods and Groughis' which "have visited this formerly prosperous area in recent years and has issued what amounts to a telegram of rebuke to those responsible, Gen. Chiang is per fectly correct in his complaint that the situation has coen given inst lent attention and that more could have been done to remedy it. The serious Yangtze floods of 1981 should have served as a lesson to the authorities in this district to prepare for natural calamities by organizing all available resources and. studying the frequency of occurrences. These floods caused tremendous losses and the recent drought, if accurate figures could only be obtained, will relatively equal these losses, Thousands of square miles of farm Jand has been stricken by the drought which has killed the crops and delayed the prospects of rrvests. People who have toured the agricultural areas of the Yangtze describe in pitiful terms the parched, brown soil which cannot be planted and the young rice plants dried up before any possibility of transplant ing. The whole Yangtze delta, with its' shallow creeks which normally provide ample irrigation, has been turned into barren land and only a fraction of the rice yield has been made possible, resulting in tremen-Jdous losses which the Chinese farmer, fiving so close to the soil and with little margin for bad seasons, must struggle long to overcome." But while it is easy to issue telegrams of Jcondemnation and criticism the vital 254 question of carrying out the suggesswered 255, Ex-King Alfonso's 'Son' Killed Loch Ness Monster Once More on tien News iw Bay gon mur Foun Wann.
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